Interesting Times

Connie has a point - it has been a while since I last posted... But hey, its not like I don't have anything to write about, y'know?

My first week in New York went really well. I looked at a few apartments and found one that was awesome - good location, close to other members on the team, cool room-mate and affordable (if a little small). I moved in at the start of my second week and have been settling in since. Wireless is just about set up, a few teething problem here and there... Other than that, things have been pretty smooth.

AIESECly, we had the Board of Directors meeting and Team Day at the start of last week, which was definately a new perspective on the organisation. Team Day was kinda weird though, I'm still not settled into the team enough to know about the dynamics and stuff like that, but that'll change over time. It was really good to see Dana, Missy, Aaron and Chris again, and to meet Sean for the first time. Then there was a few days of preliminary handover with Dana, then the Booze Cruise on Thursday... Big thanks to George for ordering my bagel for me on the way home (at 11:30pm. Why couldn't I order it myself? I can't remember!). Fun, fun night.

This week's transition with Dana was a lot of fun, it's cool to see the whole conference take shape right from the very beginning. We've been meeting every day, having conference calls, brainstorming, all that fun stuff. We met on the 4th of July for a little while as Dana had to leave this afternoon, so we did a little work then before meeting up with Carly, AliG and Kevin for drinks in the Village. Ended up on a East-side rooftop watching the fireworks, which was a very cool show. Ironically, I got more flak for wearing an IU shirt than I did for being English, but all in all a very good day.

I've been thinking about home a lot this week as well. It appears that whenever I'm out of the country the UK gets some kind of good sporting news (England won the Rugby World Cup while I was at IU, and now the 2012 Olympics). It was great to see the photos of everyone celebrating in Trafalgar Square once the news came through, which made the news of the attacks so weird coming the day after such good spirits. I was able to call or e-mail everyone I knew in London and everyone was OK, thankfully. It was awesome to see NomadLife spring into action as well to make sure everyone was alright.But London has been through a lot in recent times, and I'm sure it'll get through this as well.

Which brings us to today - Dana's headed back to Austin (and I'm sure I'll follow her at some point in the future); I'm working on a range of SSC materials for next month; I'm on the hunt for a cell phone tomorrow (my trials with Cingular online can wait for another post, but needless to say: $300 deposit? Fuck that!); and I think I'm going Kyaking on Sunday with Jen and Dan (our new Office Manager and all-around nice guy) on the Hudson River. Hurrah!